A. Gates, S. Roach, I. Gallegos, Omar Ochoa, O. Sokolsky
{"title":"JavaMaC and runtime monitoring for geoinformatics grid services","authors":"A. Gates, S. Roach, I. Gallegos, Omar Ochoa, O. Sokolsky","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.40","url":null,"abstract":"The Geoscience Network (GEON) project is a collaborative effort among numerous institutions to create the geoinformatics infrastructure. Because of the criticality of the grid services that is deployed, scientists need assurance of the integrity of the data supplied by the service and assurance that the workflows and other scientific applications behave as expected. This paper describes the efforts toward using the Kepler workflow system to define new applications, the prospec specification tool to define properties, and the JavaMac system to monitor grid services. In addition, it outlines the research questions and challenges that must be addressed to meet the requirements of the GEON community.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114153515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An FPGA-based key-store for improving the dependability of security services","authors":"A. Cilardo, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.16","url":null,"abstract":"A key-store is a facility for storing sensitive information, most typically the keys of a cryptographic application which provides a security service. In this paper, we present a hardware implemented key-store, which allows secure storage and high performance retrieval of RSA keys. Since RSA is the most widely adopted standard for cryptographic keys, our key-store can be effectively used to improve the dependability of a wide class of security services. Tfie device is implemented on top of a commercial off the shelf (COTS) programmable hardware board, namely a Celoxica RCWOO mounting a Xilinx Virtex-E 2000 FPGA part. We describe the architecture of the hardware device, illustrate the organization of the associated device driver, and evaluate the security and performance gain which can be achieved by integrating our device in real-world applications.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130951411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progressive ranking and composition of Web services using covering arrays","authors":"C. Colbourn, Yinong Chen, W. Tsai","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.47","url":null,"abstract":"Major computer companies and government agencies are adopting Web services (WS) technology. Web services must ensure interoperability and security, and be reliable and trustworthy. Consumers must make runtime decisions based on an intelligent and unbiased evaluation. We propose one component of a test suite generator to address this critical issue. The goal is to transform the labor-intensive software development process into a largely automated Web services development process. The method operates within a service-oriented architecture, with the models and tools implemented as services that can be added, removed and replaced at runtime. We propose a generic greedy algorithm based on covering arrays for application in this environment.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"2007 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125580630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a flow analysis for embedded system C programs","authors":"J. Gustafsson, Andreas Ermedahl, B. Lisper","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.53","url":null,"abstract":"Reliable program worst-case execution time (WCET) estimates are a key component when designing and verifying real-time systems. One way to derive such estimates is by static WCET analysis methods, relying on mathematical models of the software and hardware involved. This paper describes an approach to static flow analysis for deriving information on the possible execution paths of C programs. This includes upper bounds for loops, execution dependencies between different code parts and safe determination of possible pointer values. The method builds upon abstract interpretation, a classical program analysis technique, which is adopted to calculate flow information and to handle the specific properties of the C programming language.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117218535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikael Åkerholm, Anders Möller, H. Hansson, Mikael Nolin
{"title":"Towards a dependable component technology for embedded system applications","authors":"Mikael Åkerholm, Anders Möller, H. Hansson, Mikael Nolin","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.52","url":null,"abstract":"Component-based software engineering is a technique that has proven effective to increase reusability and efficiency in development of office and Web applications. Though being promising also for development of embedded and dependable systems, the true potential in this domain has not yet been realized. In this paper, we present a prototype component technology developed with safety-critical automotive applications in mind. The technology is illustrated by a case-study, which is also used as the basis for an evaluation and a discussion of the appropriateness and applicability in the considered domain. Our study provides initial positive evidence of the suitability of our technology, but also shows that it needs to be extended to be fully applicable in an industrial context.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131740215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elias Teodoro da Silva, M. A. Wehrmeister, L. Becker, F. Wagner, C. Pereira
{"title":"Design exploration in HW/SW co-design of real-time object-oriented embedded systems: the scheduler object","authors":"Elias Teodoro da Silva, M. A. Wehrmeister, L. Becker, F. Wagner, C. Pereira","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a design flow for multithread object-oriented real-time applications, running on top of an embedded, platform-based, customizable Java processor, which is prototyped using affordable FPGAs. The proposed approach enforces design space exploration activities, taking into account aspects like temporal behavior, memory footprint, and power/energy consumption. A case study containing a task scheduler implementation as both software and hardware modules is presented. While both implementations are compatible with the developed program from an interface point of view, they lead to different timing and footprint requirements. Their evaluation in terms of memory occupation and number of FPGA logic cells is presented.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128201786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards self-healing systems via dependable architecture and reflective middleware","authors":"Hong Mei, Gang Huang, W. Tsai","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.54","url":null,"abstract":"Self-healing systems focus on how to reducing the complexity and cost of the management of dependability policies and mechanisms without human intervention. This position paper proposes a systematic approach to self-healing systems via dependable architecture and reflective middleware. Firstly, the differences between self-healing systems and traditional dependable systems are illustrated via the construction of a dependable computing model. Secondly, reflective middleware is incorporated into the dependable computing model for investigating the feasibility and benefits of implementing self-healing systems by reflective middleware. Thirdly, dependable architectures are introduced for providing application specific knowledge related to self-healing. Fourthly, an architecture based deployment tool is implemented for deploying dependable architectures into heterogeneous and distribute environments. Finally, an architecture based reflective J2EE application server, called PKUAS, is implemented for interpreting and enforcing dependable architectures at runtime, that is, discovering or predicting and recovering or preventing failures automatically under the guide of dependable architectures.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114389700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An ontology-based approach for determining the dependability of service-oriented architectures","authors":"N. Looker, M. Munro, Binka Gwynne, Jie Xu","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.17","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces our novel ontologies for the generation of fault injection test cases and failure detection. Our first ontology is an extension of a standard fault model that is constructed through decomposition to create a framework that facilitates automatic test generation. The second ontology is based on a set of failure modes and again decomposed to create a framework to aid in the automatic detection of system failures. We demonstrate the WS-FIT method and fault injection tools with the use of a simulated real-world system.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121888380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliable monitoring of network-related performance parameters in wireless environments","authors":"Domenico Cotroneo, A. Migliaccio, S. Russo","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.49","url":null,"abstract":"End-to-end delay estimation is a crucial issue in the design of network monitoring systems for wireless best-effort infrastructures. This work demonstrates that estimations based on one-way delay are the most suitable for evaluating the delay on wireless networks such as Wi-Fi LANs and Bluetooth piconets. To prevent delay measurement from being affected by clock synchronization issues, raw measures need to be corrected by estimating clock synchronism attributes such as clock skew and offset. However, due to network noise and clock adjustments, this estimation process may affect the reliability of network monitoring systems. In this paper, we propose a trustworthy network performance monitor designed to support adaptive and/or soft real-time applications in wireless environments. The monitor corrects one-way delay measurements through an on-line algorithm for evaluating clock synchronism attributes. Simulation experiments show the effectiveness of our approach.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125578337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues in providing quality of service in a joint battlespace infosphere","authors":"J. Loyall, J. Lawson, G. Duzan","doi":"10.1109/WORDS.2005.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WORDS.2005.39","url":null,"abstract":"Military command and control systems rely on information that is timely, accurate, and in the correct form in order to make mission-critical decisions. Therefore these systems rely on having predictable quality of service, or QoS, for information creation, delivery, and processing. The joint battlespace infosphere, or JBI, is an information system architecture being developed to support the military's information exchange for decision making at all echelons. The JBI is based upon a publish, subscribe, and query architecture with support for information fusion and aggregation. This paper discusses the issues of providing QoS in a JBI implementation and describes a prototype JBI implementing publish on demand, an approach to providing QoS managed information through a JBI.","PeriodicalId":335355,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122213171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}